Krushari Municipality
# Krushari Municipality

Krushari Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Крушари) is a municipality (obshtina) in Dobrich Province, Northeastern Bulgaria, located in Southern Dobruja geographical region, bounded by Romania to the north. It is named after its administrative centre - the village of Krushari.

The municipality embraces a territory of 417.5 $km^2$ (161.2 sq mi) with a population of 5,296 inhabitants, as of December 2009.

## Settlements

Krushari Municipality includes the following 19 places, all of them are villages:

| Town/Village | Cyrillic | Population (December 2009) |
| - | - | - |
| Krushari | Крушари | 1592 |
| Abrit | Абрит | 285 |
| Aleksandria | Александрия | 147 |
| Bistrets | Бистрец | 112 |
| Dobrin | Добрин | 185 |
| Efreytor Bakalovo | Ефрейтор Бакалово | 292 |
| Gaber | Габер | 123 |
| Kapitan Dimitrovo | Капитан Димитрово | 134 |
| Koriten | Коритен | 326 |
| Lozenets | Лозенец | 607 |
| Ognyanovo | Огняново | 34 |
| Polkovnik Dyakovo | Полковник Дяково | 304 |
| Poruchik Kurdjievo | Поручик Кърджиево | 54 |
| Severnyak | Северняк | 178 |
| Severtsi | Северци | 203 |
| Telerig | Телериг | 514 |
| Zagortsi | Загорци | 156 |
| Zementsi | Земенци | 29 |
| Zimnitsa | Зимница | 21 |
| Total | | 5,296 |

## Demography

The following table shows the change of the population during the last four decades.

Krushari Municipality :

| Year | 1975 | 1985 | 1992 | 2001 | 2005 | 2007 | 2009 | 2011 |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Population | 10,657 | 8,594 | 7,243 | 5,924 | 5,852 | 5,617 | 5,296 | ... |
| Sources: Census 2001, Census 2011, „pop-stat.mashke.org“, |||||||||

### Religion

According to the latest Bulgarian census of 2011, the religious composition, among those who answered the optional question on religious identification, was the following:

Religious composition of Krushari Municipality

Orthodox Christianity

43.3%

Catholicism

0.8%

Protestantism

0.0%

Islam

36.5%

No religion

5.7%

Prefer not to answer, others and indefinable

13.7% :

